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1968-1972- My First programs were written in BASIC,
my first hack was a time hack on a Burroughs 2000, changed system time with basic
to increase user time for Students at Waukesha High School. Won a scholarship to UW-Madison, won a physics award for building a Telescope with two other students. Was Student Council President, President of the Science Club and Vice-president of the Explorer's Club sponsored by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department. Won award by Knights of Columbus for Outstanding Student and Citizen.
1974–1975 Worked on first UNIX System 2.2, 2.3 release
from Berkeley. Wrote in C, shell, and
assembler to write first inter-network communication between UNIX, RT-11 and
VMS, using mail, serial ports and networked bus exchange on PDP/11’s.
Was Adventure champ for the University of Wisconsin,
month of September 1975, until someone cheated and hacked the Adventure database
to beat my score. Proudest achievement at the UW other than pin-ball, also baseball champs for the UW Math Department( I was the CS ringer).
Mentioned in The Wisconsin Engineer article about the demise of Star Trek program at the UW MACC.
Goldlin, Jan (ed.) / The Wisconsin engineer
Volume 80, Number 2 (1976)
Blackman, Phil
Startrek cancelled by popular demand, pp. 10-13
1979-81 Worked on PDP/11’s
writing Communications protocols for TRT, Siemens and Racal-Milgo. Developed first diagnostic programs for
networking modems and centralized management on the CMS2000 System(Macro-11 PDP
11, RSX). Systems are on exhibit at the
Racal Datacom Museum Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Wrote cell managed spread sheet Applications program for RSTS in BASIC
and DIBOL for IDS later became prototype for VisiCalc and later spreadsheet
clones Lotus and Excel. Wrote Basic to
DIBOL translator converting Basic to Dibol and back, first known
inter-programming language translator. Worked on Wiedner Translation system for
Siemens, converted dictionary and communications, BSC link, from UNIX to MVS
mainframes – first language translator that converted German to English to
Spanish and back again across multiple computer platforms.
1982-1984 Worked at Gould Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale. Ported and developed first UNIX emulator on Gould MPX systems for GM MAP. Project was the first inter-vendor communications TCP/IP network client-server applications, Robotic System Control Systems. The systems inter-networked included: IBM, Gould, GM, DEC, HP, UNIVAC, and other vendors. This system was hailed as the first real internet client-server TCP/IP System, the work my group and I did resides at the Smithsonian Institute/NSO museum, as a testament to that accomplishment. This System features were later used for the Internet and other inter-network communications software (First use of sockets, ports and TCP/IP in a broadband X.25 Transport Network).
1984-1985 Paradyne/Ark
Electronics Designed, developed and tested first multi-speed commercial modem,
the ARK 24K. This modem is a split
speed auto-baud detection modem. It
was the first to emulate 3 other modems types (Hayes, Microcom and US
Robotics), with MNP and encryption. A
patent was granted on the design, also developed a multi-protocol multiplexor, first
design that sent multiple communication protocols over the same multi-drop
synchronous network, developed DES encryption and compression for delivery
(Huffman Encoding). Wrote SDLC and BSC X.25 PAD software on Zilog (Z80) processor in
assembler for Gould inter-network communications project and the MX missile
communications systems.
Patent Number: 4,726,017 Date of Patent Issue: Feb. 16,1988.
1985-1988 – ATT, Lincroft, NJ
Worked as a communication consultant to ATT, Lincroft, NJ. First project was a BSC PAD software for
PDP/11 Unix systems written in C. Later
worked on design and implementation of the first ISDN application( Ameritech )
and received letter of Commendation from the Director of Bell Labs and the
General Manager, Wayne Hatter. Wrote
ground breaking proposal to design unchannelized ISDN protocol (NIPM) which
eventually evolved into DSL and Cable modem Protocols and services. Worked on 1987 – 1988 on first
implementation of the C++ language for commercial use. Used C++ to write some of the First
communication libraries in that language, tested and helped in the design of
C++. Also was hacked by assailant at ATT, detected and reported Violation and
history, the hacker was the First Prosecuted and Received 5 years for unlawful
access to ATT secured computer networks.
Worked in QA, designed some of the first automated test procedures for SDLC, SNA, TCP/IP, X.25 and other protocols for ATT product Development.
November 1988 - July 1989 IBM, Westlake
Did Performance and design
analysis of the PS/2(OS/2 EE) Office Vision Systems. Primarily concerned with
ARH(LU 6.2), Display Services PM, System Services, Object Editors and APPC.
Used C, REXX, SAS ( SAS/ACCESS SAS Graph to reduce and report data to upper IBM
management). Performance reports were
hailed as best example, by VP of IBM,
of their type ever produced at IBM.
January 1990 - February 1991 IBM Austin, TX
Using OS/2 and MVS/VM wrote a
CIM manufacturing Product for IBM. Using PlantControl and OS/2 DBM, with LU
6.2(APPC), IMS, CICS, did the DAE(Distributed Automation Edition) PlantControl
Application. With the implementation of this product IBM was awarded the Malcom
Balridge Award. Application wrote using C and Dialog Services - PM(Microsoft
Windows), including embedded SQL - DBM and HLLAPI access to DB II. Functional Specification “Bridges to
PlantControl”, was lauded as the best example of a functional specification
ever written for IBM and is still used as a prototype for functional
specifications within IBM.
March 1991 - June 1991 DUN&BRADSTREET
Baskenridge, NJ
Using OS/2(PM) and DOS/Windows
wrote a graphical GUI interface to the D&B Repository DB2 Database called
the Database Explorer. Writing in C++ and C this product used embedded SQL
queries to represent relationships in the D&B database as graphical
entities showing them in CASE like abstractions. First Expert System utilizing data-mining and exploratory
learning system to explore complex case data relationships.
June 1991- October 1991 Coopers & Lybrand Floral
Park, NY
SCO-XENIX, UNIX, ULTRIX and Sun Networking and
administration. Tested various TCP/IP packages To support SENDMAIL 4.x
UNIX and on the VAX/VMS systems. Those tested included MultiNet, FUSION, UCX
and CMU-TEK. Wrote ksh, csh, scripts and C programs to access and consolidate
accounting report data used CVS for change management and documentation
archiving. Set up UUCP, TCP/IP, and wrote test X-window and DEC Window software
to interface with the VAX/VMS Oracle Database.
First Mail Exchange Systems integrating Sendmail Unix. VMS mail and
Mainframe Mail exchange.
November 1991 - September 1992 PRODIGY, White Plains,
NY
Did SUN and AIX system
administration. Evaluated various
Database Engines(Oracle, Sybase and Informix) for a port of the DUN &
Bradstreet 12 gigabyte DB2 database to SYBASE. The United States Business
Directory is a service for PRODIGY's on-line network. On the RS/6000(AIX) and
SUN used SYBASE Open Client. Used Open Client and DBLIB access, on the PS/2
OS/2 system. TCP/IP Token Ring used to access the RS/6000 and PS/2. LU0 SNA on
the PS/2 used to communicate to the users. Using C(++) did SYBASE database
analysis, administration and implementation. Did X/MOTIF and Windows
prototyping using various window management systems. This was the first Public Search Engine for an ISP offered to
the public for browsing.
March 1995-January 1996 IBM, Whiteplains, NY
Sun/OS Administration working on
WWW server software, socket programming on IBM PC's, SUNs, AIX, RS/6000 billing
applications C(++), DB2/6000, SYBASE. Supported billing database and queries
for the World Wide Web news service. Used Rogue Wave Software and embedded SQL
to develop programs and queries. Did HTML , PERL, KSH and JAVA to develop query
front ends for NT and Windows 95. and socket communications for IBM news
service.
October 1992 - April 1993 RACAL-Datacom, Miramar,
FL
Ported SNMP and created MIB Objects for the T1 Excalibur
Controller for supporting the MCI VISA, MC, AMEX protocol network. Did
diagnostic T7, Modec, and Testing over T1 DS0 Channels. Created an embedded 32
bit SNMP port on XOS from the Spider System and for MS windows, also for DOS on
the CMS400 Diagnostic System. Used Sockets to program client-server environment
on Sun workstations, used RPC for the same task using XDIR and ASN SNMP types.
Did socket and DOS/SUN windows based communications programming. Ported UDP,
PPP, TCP/IP and SNMP to support the Objects for SNMP control over X.25(PPP),
Ethernet and T1.
May 1993 - August 1994 Merrill Lynch, NY, NY
Sun Administration and HP/UX,
used CVS to support Performance Management Software of Merrill’s 40,000 node
network. Wrote ksh, C, socket and
communications programming for UNIX SUN, HP 9000 and Windows/3.1 environment.
Work included setting up SYBASE servers and Network Management Stations writing
customized Socket programs, Scripts and conversion utilities to manage and
gather performance statistics from the Spectrum Network Management System,
Concord Trakker and HP Netmetrics. These statistics were gathered and placed in
various databases including SYBASE, INGRES and ORACLE. I used C++, C, and SAS
to create reports and gather data from SNMP MIBS. Worked with SNMP management
of CISCO Routers, Synoptic Hubs, Wellfleet and Cabletron equipment. Used
SNIFFER and other monitoring equipment to find network performance and Security
problems. This was the first
integrated Performance Network System that monitored and reported on all TCP/IP
protocols.
Mail, network routing problems and complete diagnostic system. This system has yet to be fully utilized or realized anywhere else.
1995 – Started Skycom,
developed the first Wireless LAN networking Communication device for NT and
Widows. Written in C and C++ it was the
first commercially affordable wireless LAN communication system that networked
Computers printers and modems. Patents
pending and other documentation submitted to US Patent office. This technology was later used by Motorola
and other Companies for PDA’s and other wireless communications. Also designed first wireless mouse, keyboard
and wireless PDA design. Patents
pending technology was later used to develop current state-of-the-art wireless
communication devices( PDAs, Mice, Keyboards, LAN switches etc).
February 1996 - May 1996 Dow
Jones-Telerate, Jersey City, NJ
Did SUN/OS System
Administration. Helped design, develop
and test Telerate Line Feeds(Telerate Analyzer), capturing Telerate Data using
an HP/9000 and Win NT. To develop programs to collect real-time data, updated
an Informix Database, used C-ISAM, SYBASE developed a statistics
database for query by Dow Jones Support and upper Management. All change management was done using PVCS
and CVS. This was the First
Telerate Automatic Diagnostic System, capturing live traffic, warehousing the
data and diagnosing data delivery problems.
Oct. 1997-Oct. 1998 Citicorp, NY
Firewall
Security Manager(VP), Managed security group used Tivoli Monitor for Citicorp Global.
Cyberguard-PIX Certified, set security policy, reviewing and upgrading existing
security on the Internet, Intranet, market feed and WWW. Supported floor
applications using PIX and CyberGuard firewall protecting Knight Ridder(Bridge)
Money Center, ATW-PTW, Reuters and Bloomberg feeds. Managed the Global Firewall
operations in Europe, Asia and the United States overseeing the deployment of
Global Firewall Security. Did SAS
Performance reporting with statistics gathered in ACCESS along with
Tivoli. Worked with TIBCO installation
setting up Sun Solaris Systems and Operating Environment for CitiCorp.
Nov. 1998 - May 1999 T.J. Watson Research, Hawthorne,NY
Senior Oracle DBA and Design on AIX Tivoli Monitor
for ISP provider billing and accounting database. Ported MCI database from 7.3.1 to Oracle 8 CWIX database. Did
capacity planning of systems using SAS analysis tools. Wrote scripts, back up procedures and did
day-to-day Oracle DBA work. Wrote Conversion utilities in ksh, sql and
C++. Defined triggers and designed
Database using the ERWIN modeling tool. Used CVS for all change
management and system configuration control.
Nothing too interesting but it was done quickly and efficiently.
Network Associates, Iselin,NJ June 1999-Oct. 1999
Senior Security Consultant duties included evaluations,
documentation and installation of the CyberGuard Security Suite
includes: PGP, PKI server, CyberCop, CyberScan, SENDMAIL
8 mail scanners and Gauntlet.
Installed Solaris and created conversion scripts for Gauntlet upgrades
on HP/UX , SUN/Solaris, BSDi and
Windows NT. Installed and upgraded
systems for a number of government
Agencies including, Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Export Administration, FTC,
NOAA, and others. Used ksh, csh, perl and other scripting
languages to install upgrades to Gauntlet.
Did PIX Firewall installations, upgrades and worked with SNMP, on
Cisco, BayNetworks and other routers.
Used SnifferPro to debug and trace network Firewall Problems. Worked on products to improve performance
and integrity, wrote script conversion utility of old policy to new policy for
upgrades first of its type.
2000 - Worked on newfeeds data
information Database, taking raw news feed data, reuters, tibco, comtext and
others to create a real-time Oracle database and search engine for web based
searching and dynamic updating of content on a WEB site. First implementation for the Internet, for
Stream Media and HealthSCOUT. Was Written in PERL/DBI and C++ on a Linux 6.2
Redhat system.
November 1999 - October 2000 HealthSCOUT NY,NY
Senior Operations Manager/Senior
System Administrator for the HealthSCOUT WEB site.
Did support of SENDMAIL 8 mail exchange, Verisign Certificate
server and RSA SecurID Server..
Project Managed 300,000 hit per day WEB hosting environment using Oracle,
SUN Enterprise Environment and HP/UX.
Assigned tasks and provided direction in Troubleshooting Solaris Oracle
8i, iPlanet environment. Used Netegrity Siteminder to get reports and
statistics on Oracle Performance and WEB usage. Did Performance Analysis on Solaris and general day-to-day WEB
hosting Operations using SAS/CPE reporting and network support Tivoli, TIBCO
Sync Servers, Reuters on Sybase 10. Used Clarion Raid, EMC, Veritas
Volume Manager and Legato to setup volume management, backup and restore.
Also did Checkpoint firewall support and troubleshooting on Solaris
2.6. All code and documents were kept
on CVS and all change management was controlled there.
Senior System Administrator and
Security Consultant - Troubleshooting Network and PC problems on a secure network including SENDMAIL
8 problems and configuration.. Used
CVS and PVCS to keep Administration
scripts and builds for the UNIX and PIX systems. Includes Solaris OS installation and performance enhancements
along with Firewall Security, Network Performance and Cisco Router, Gauntlet
3.2-6.0, PIX 520-525 problems. Working
with HP/UX, SUN Administration (Sol. 2.5- 2.8), Tivoli, TIBCO,
Sync Server Support, Reuters, WIN/NT/98, SSH, SSL, Gauntlet 5.5,
6.0, NetTools PKI Certificate Server on NT, RSA SecurID Card
Server, Verisign on Solaris, PIX Configurations troubleshooting
applications security and networking issues.
Analyzed and trouble shot Problems with Arrowpoint load balancers, Cisco
Routers, SMTP(E-mail), Network and Netegrity and other Security products(e.g.
CISCO FWTK). Used SNMP management tools
(HP Openview, Tivoli, snmpwalk, snmpget, snmpset and wrote C SNMP query
tools).
September 2001- November 2002 ConEdison Communications, Long
Island City, NY
Senior System
Administrator worked on a project to port Oracle 7 to
8i Fiber optic data. installing HP/UX, SUN Solaris 7 and 8 to support iPlanet Web/ Proxy Server, AIX
Websphere testing, Verisign PKI, RSA SecurID Card Server,
IDS(Tripwire), DNS server Bind 8, Sendmail 8 and PIX security
updates on Cisco 520. Also installed
Cisco CTM 2.2 and Cisco Works on Solaris 7 on Sun Netra for Fiber Channel
Monitoring and Configuration support to update and query MIBs on SNMP(Using SAS,
Excel, perl and C++). Configured
and used Tivoli(Tivoli Enterprise console) to monitor systems and update
configurations. Updated and supported Checkpoint Firewall on Solaris
2.6. Used Clarion Raid, EMC, Veritas
Volume Manager and Legato to setup volume management, backup and restore.
Senior System Administrator worked as Second Tier support for Oracle, Solaris and NT, Windows XP, 2000. Worked with User manager, and Administered Verisign PKI Server, RSA SecurID Card Server, IDS(Tripwire), and day-to-day Floor Support issues. Theses include Bloomberg, ATW, PTW, TIBCO, EBS Trading, FX foreign exchange, Reuters, and realtime newsfeeds and servers. Had to support UNIX Servers, NT and other real-time floor applications for the SG worldwide trading floods and branch offices.
NTI, NY, NY – present
Teaching Linux, Security, Scripting, Programming and SUN Administration to laid
off NY State employees.
Writing conversion utility to
automate port of Gauntlet Security Policy to PIX, still writing and designing
prototype. First of its type to create
a meta-security policy profile to then target the major Firewall systems for
implementation and porting. Working also on penetration testing Systems and
other security products to detect and harden network and computer security.
Working Network System Performance/Security/ Monitor to use SNMP, Network tools
and other traffic information to handle the complexities of managing a large
Commercial, School or Government Network.
Also re-wrote for Swiss Bank, Tested for Citibank, and wrote for Goldman Sachs - Foreign Exchange trading systems and monitors that tapped into the 60 Trillion dollar FX market. I have proposed automated trading systems and wrote a ground breaking paper on automated trading. This is confidential to the extreme.
Educational Background:
University of Wisconsin Computer Science, MSCS, MATC - Madison Area Technical College(AS), work in IBM Cobol and OS design and operations, George Washington University - Continuing Education Program Communications Graduate Courses, Gould Training Program, AT&T LAN Course Ethernet, Token Ring. Cabletron Spectrum Certified, HP/Openview, Cybergard Certified, Gauntlet/Cisco Pix/Checkpoint Trainer/Installer.
Other Honors: January 4, 1995 - Knighted as a Chevalier, Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta, "Holy Villadieu of France". Became Minister of Protocol, and President/CEO, Head of the Knights of Malta in 1999.
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